Venture Summit Silicon Valley is the premier annual gathering of the brightest minds and top entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate players in the Global Silicon Valley. This one-day exclusive event treats attendees to a high-level debate and discourse on top trends and opportunities in the booming digital media and entertainment and on-demand and cloud computing sectors. Venture Summit Silicon Valley is taking place at the dynamic new Draper University, where participants can easily meet up, socially network, and make deals happen.

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In the past, building a game was like making a Hollywood movie: creative people collaborating in a massive, expensive effort to build a self-contained entity that, when finished, they released to the market and then sat back to watch it succeed or fail.

Happy New Year! 2014 will be when the Internet and technology start becoming everyone’s sci-fi dream world – or nightmare. The “shocking news” of the NSA peeping into your world was only the tip of the iceberg. As Internet connectivity expands into our clothes, bodies, and homes, the potential for intrusion by someone becomes exponentially greater. (Maybe this is a growth opportunity for the Amish and I should consider buying real estate in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.)